In 1991 Waliczky
wrote the script for THE GARDEN, an animation based on an idea which came
from an old piece of Super-8 film, made over ten years before, showing
a little girl playing in a country garden. The artist's aim was to portray
the alertness and curiosity of a small child investigating its surroundings,
and to evoke the particular sense of affection that children often inspire
in us. To illustrate these lines of force, Waliczky devised a new type
of perspective, the "waterdrop-perspective-system". The conventional
notion of perspective, dating from the Renaissance, privileges the viewer
as the person for whose benefit the depiction of the world unfolds and
whose gaze completes the image; the stability of his or her position is
mirrored by the fixed vanishing point. "Waterdrop-perspective"
is a quite different principle which structures every object from the
vantage point of the child within the space of the image: the objects
grow or shrink as the approaches them or moves away. Thus everything in
the space becomes visually distorted; the world is seen as a sphere and
the child as its centre. In other words, the depicted world is the child's
own private universe; shaped entirely by the child's movements, it is
independent of the viewer who stands outside it and sees the dream of
another.